page_title: Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences / History
caption_attribution_description: తెలుగు: Foundation stone in the main building
context_page_description: Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences is a public hospital located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India and is named after its founder – the 7th Nizam of Hyderabad– and was inaugurated by Princess Durreshehvar
  It is an Institute under State Legislature Act under the Act of Andhra Pradesh State Legislature. It has a big sprawling campus in Punjagutta.
context_section_description: The Nizam's Orthopaedic Hospital was inaugurated by Sri S. K. Patil, Union Minister for Railways on 22 December 1964. The first Superintendent of the hospital was M. Ranga Reddy, a well known Orthopedic Surgeon, who convinced the 7th Nizam to build a specialty hospital for Orthopedics and played an important role in its construction.  The hospital was under the H.E.H. the Nizam's Charitable Trust until it was handed over to AP Government.  Dr. Ranga Reddy was the administrator of the hospital also till then.
caption: Foundation stone laid by Morarji Desai, 1961
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